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• Woods exceeds expectations on Masters return (Reuters)
• Sri Lanka vote to hand president's party easy victory (Reuters)
• Apple unveils iAd platform; iPad sales look strong (Reuters)
• ANALYSIS - Nike's Tiger commercial ignites debate on taste (Reuters)
• Obama, Medvedev press Iran, differ on Kyrgyzstan (Reuters)
• Sonia Gandhi emerges from political shadows (Reuters)
• Greece plunges deeper into crisis, banks, euro hit (Reuters)
• Nuclear summit takes aim at unsecured bomb material (Reuters)
• Pakistani MPs do away with Zardari's crucial powers (Reuters)
• Oprah Winfrey to host new global evening show (Reuters)
• Qatari diplomat causes security scare on U.S. flight (Reuters)
• Nepal, China recognise two heights of Mount Everest (Reuters)
• Sri Lanka Tamils: imperfect post-war freedom to vote (Reuters)
• Essar to raise $2.5 bln in London energy IPO (Reuters)
• Apple's iPad takes video gaming seriously (Reuters)
• Thai "red shirt" protesters vow defiant mass rally (Reuters)
• Sri Lanka's first post-war parliamentary poll ends (Reuters)
• India needs 150,000 hotel rooms in 3 yrs - Tourism Secy (Reuters)
• FACTBOX - India's major welfare schemes (Reuters)
• Food prices accelerate; rate hike near certain (Reuters)

Woods exceeds expectations on Masters return (Reuters) Posted: 08 Apr 2010 07:54 PM PDT Reuters - An astounded Tiger Woods exceeded his own expectations in his first tournament for almost five months as veteran Fred Couples charged into a one-shot lead in the U.S. Masters first round on Thursday.

Sri Lanka vote to hand president's party easy victory (Reuters) Posted: 08 Apr 2010 01:46 PM PDT Reuters - Sri Lankan election officials tallied votes on Friday from a parliamentary poll widely expected to hand President Mahinda Rajapaksa's ruling alliance an easy victory amid lacklustre turnout.

Apple unveils iAd platform; iPad sales look strong (Reuters) Posted: 08 Apr 2010 04:35 PM PDT Reuters - Apple CEO Steve Jobs showed off a new smartphone operating system on Thursday that features an advertising platform to compete with Google's, and revealed stronger-than-expected sales of 450,000 units for the iPad.

ANALYSIS - Nike's Tiger commercial ignites debate on taste (Reuters) Posted: 08 Apr 2010 12:50 PM PDT Reuters - Is using the voice of Tiger Woods's deceased father in a TV commercial a piece of genius marketing or just plain creepy?

Obama, Medvedev press Iran, differ on Kyrgyzstan (Reuters) Posted: 08 Apr 2010 01:06 PM PDT Reuters - The United States and Russia pressed Iran on Thursday to renounce its nuclear ambitions or face new sanctions as they signed a landmark strategic nuclear disarmament treaty, but differences flared over Kyrgyzstan.

Sonia Gandhi emerges from political shadows (Reuters) Posted: 08 Apr 2010 06:19 AM PDT Reuters - After years of running India from the shadows, ruling party chief Sonia Gandhi has grabbed a more public role with a cabinet-ranked post that may herald more social welfare spending and less talk of economic "miracles".

Greece plunges deeper into crisis, banks, euro hit (Reuters) Posted: 08 Apr 2010 04:09 PM PDT Reuters - Markets pounded Greek bonds and banking stocks on Thursday, driving the debt-stricken euro zone member's borrowing costs to new highs and pushing it closer to tapping a last resort EU/IMF safety net.

Nuclear summit takes aim at unsecured bomb material (Reuters) Posted: 08 Apr 2010 06:22 PM PDT Reuters - Dozens of world leaders gather in Washington next week for an unprecedented meeting on nuclear security, with U.S. President Barack Obama hoping they can agree on how to keep atomic bombs out of terrorists' hands.

Pakistani MPs do away with Zardari's crucial powers (Reuters) Posted: 08 Apr 2010 08:14 AM PDT Reuters - Pakistan's National Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed a set of constitutional reforms, curbing the powers of President Asif Ali Zardari and transferring them to the prime minister and parliament.

Oprah Winfrey to host new global evening show (Reuters) Posted: 08 Apr 2010 11:35 AM PDT Reuters - Oprah Winfrey will try to recreate her daytime success in the evening with a new show she will host from around the world next year after ending her reign as daytime talk-show queen after 25 years, her network said on Thursday.

Qatari diplomat causes security scare on U.S. flight (Reuters) Posted: 08 Apr 2010 12:28 PM PDT Reuters - A Qatari diplomat who caused a security alert aboard a United Airlines flight after smoking in a toilet will not be charged with a crime, an embassy representative said on Thursday.

Nepal, China recognise two heights of Mount Everest (Reuters) Posted: 08 Apr 2010 08:22 AM PDT Reuters - Nepal and China have agreed to recognise the snow and rock heights of Mount Everest, ending a long-standing debate about the height of the world's tallest mountain, officials said on Thursday.

Sri Lanka Tamils: imperfect post-war freedom to vote (Reuters) Posted: 08 Apr 2010 10:27 AM PDT Reuters - Tamils in Sri Lanka's former war zone voted on Thursday to elect parliamentarians for the first time in three decades without the Tamil Tiger rebels dictating their ballots at gunpoint.

Essar to raise $2.5 bln in London energy IPO (Reuters) Posted: 08 Apr 2010 08:04 AM PDT Reuters - Indian conglomerate Essar Group said it plans to raise about $2.5 billion by listing its energy and power businesses on the London bourse, tapping new investors to fund its ambitious expansion plans.

Apple's iPad takes video gaming seriously (Reuters) Posted: 08 Apr 2010 04:21 AM PDT Reuters - Apple's iPad tablet computer hasn't been out a week yet but there are already over 830 video games that have been developed to suit the large format, high definition, multi-touch screen.

Thai "red shirt" protesters vow defiant mass rally (Reuters) Posted: 08 Apr 2010 07:16 AM PDT Reuters - Thai anti-government protesters vowed to go ahead with a mass street rally on Friday in defiance of an emergency decree imposed in the capital to quell nearly a month of demonstrations demanding new elections.

Sri Lanka's first post-war parliamentary poll ends (Reuters) Posted: 08 Apr 2010 09:23 AM PDT Reuters - Sri Lankans voted on Thursday in an election likely to further entrench President Mahinda Rajapaksa's political dominance, the first parliamentary poll since last year's end of a quarter-century of war.

India needs 150,000 hotel rooms in 3 yrs - Tourism Secy (Reuters) Posted: 07 Apr 2010 11:36 PM PDT Reuters - India needs 150,000 hotel rooms over the next three years, two-thirds of which would be rooms meant for budget hotels, as the tourism industry revives, India's tourism secretary told reporters on Thursday.

FACTBOX - India's major welfare schemes (Reuters) Posted: 08 Apr 2010 03:03 AM PDT Reuters - India is projected to have a fiscal deficit of 5.5 percent in the year to March 2010, and government officials have said it needs to trim its welfare schemes to help cap this.

Food prices accelerate; rate hike near certain (Reuters) Posted: 08 Apr 2010 12:30 AM PDT Reuters - Food prices accelerated for the second straight week in late-March, strengthening expectations of a hike in key policy rates when the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) reviews its policy on April 20.

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